Abstract

Editorial Paragraphs

With the U.S. Congress, too, U.S. President Calvin Coolidge is out of luck. It has now been two months in session and the President has encountered only defeat. This is in part due to the fact that the Progressive Senators hold the balance of power in the Senate, but the House, also, defeated the President on several occasions. This is, of course, not unusual when a President is nearly at the end of his term and it is known that he will not sue himself. Rarely, a newspaper is so guilty of misrepresentation as was the "New Haven Journal-Courier," toward the nineteen Yale university students who were arrested for distributing a pamphlet discussing the neckwear strike in New Haven. In reprinting an editorial of the "Yale Daily News," the periodical not only distorted the whole tenor of the article through its headlines but actually deleted a negative from a sentence. The obscenity law of the U.S. Post Office Department, officially Section 212 of the United States Penal Code, has never been put to stranger use than in the attempted prohibition of stamps issued by the Anti-Imperialist League bearing the words "Protest Against Marine Rule in Nicaragua." The Anti-Imperialist League says that if the mails can be used for anti-tuberculosis propaganda they can be used also for anti-imperialist propaganda.